Category: Spring 2020

Wayne Hulgin’s mixed media work—whether it’s wood, paper, canvas, layers of paint, or lines of graphite—is involved with the visual aspects of what you are really looking at and how it’s put together, how it works with the wall, and how it works with the light. He is not limited by the need to include symbolism, communicate a narrative or promote a political agenda, which he feels might prevent him from experimenting and going forward. In Hulgin’s words, “What you see is what you get—nothing more, nothing less. My work is not about anything other than what’s right before your eyes.”

Nikko Mueller’s recent work developed from a standing
exploration of disruption, destabilization, and transformation. He is
interested in examining and manipulating the various components
of a painting: image, surface, and support. Beginning with a basic vocabulary of elemental shapes and color relationships, Mueller folds the canvas and re-stretches it, editing the information, distorting the arrangement, and often letting the margin infiltrate the image space. 
The forms in his paintings are eclipsed, compromised, and then reconstituted, as he attempts to reconcile or “fix” the painting. In the end, these paintings exist in the space left between ideal and acciden